Mount for preserving records.



'PATBNTBD JUNE 7, 1904. A. P. HOARD. MOUNT PoR 'PRESERVING RECORDS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 1I 1902.

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PATENT OFFICE.

" ALLEN P. HOARD, .OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MOUNT FOR PRESERVING RECORDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,964, dated June '7, 1904. Application led August l, 1902. Serial No. 117,913. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, ALLEN P. I-IoARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mounts for Preserving Records, of which the following is a specification.

Records of important events,old documents, rare engravings,and similar written or printed sheets are in their normal condition subject to decay. It` is frequently desirable to protect the same against decay or injury caused by handling the sheets, and it isalso desirable to bind them into books, arrange them in binders, portfolios, or other receptacles.

The object of my invention is to provide a mount in which record-sheets may be mounted and preserved against the action of the atmosphere or insects and which mounts maybe bound in books or placed in portfolios.

The invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of the mount whereby the record-sheet may be protected, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a mount adapted to receive the record-sheet. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the mount containing therecord-sheet. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the mount containing the record-sheet coveredwith a sheet of preservative material. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the completed mount. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional View showing the parts in their relative positions before being secured together.

In the drawings, a indicates the record-sheet, on one or both sides of which a written, drawn,y printed, or otherwise produced record desired to be preserved is contained.

indicates a sheet 'of` paper or other ,suitable and preferably iiexible material of practic-ally the ythickness ofthe record-sheet.

is an opening in the sheet, corresponding.

with the shape and size of the record-sheet, 52 b2 the sidemargins of the sheet o, and Z13 723 the end margins.

c cindicate sheets of woven silk or silk-gauze treated with parafhnto make the sheet impervious to air, semitransparent, and insectproof.

CZ d are strips Vof thin paper, preferably the tissue-paper of commerce.

The sheet is in the preferred form made of one sheet of paper, in which the opening for the record-sheet a is cut out; but the sheet b may be formed of four pieces,the two sides b2 b2 and the ends 3 3, as'indicated in broken lines, extending perpendicularly across the ends 3 b3 in Fig. 1.

In forming the mount one of the sheets c, of silk, is pasted on one side of the sheet o, so as to cover the opening and lap over the margins b2 and 3, as shownin Fig. 3 and indicated in broken lines in the other iigures. Into the opening the record-sheet, which has been covered or impregnated with a preserving matter, such as paraftimis placed and covered margins L2 and b3. Both the front and the back sheets c o are n'ow pressed on the respective surfaces of the record-sheet a, so as to firmly adhere to the same. As the edges of of the silk sheets c c would be liable to ravel and become injured, the strips d Z of tissue-paper are pasted over the edges of the silk and the margins 722 and 3, so as to overlap at the corners o f the mount, as is shown in Fig. 4L.

vwith a sheet c, of silk, which is pasted on the The mounts may be seeured together in a book, seeuredin a binder, or placed into portfolios. The record will be protected against the action of the air, gases, and the ravages of insects, which will not attack anything impregnated with paraffin.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a mount for preserving records, the combination with the record-sheet a, and the Inargins .62- 62 and 53 b3, of the transparent sheets c c, and the strips CZ d secured to the margins of the transparent sheets and the margins 52 and 713, as described.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specifieationin the presence of two subscribing witnesses. A ALLEN P. HOARD. Witnesses:

J. A. MILLER, Jr., B. S. WEBSTER. 

